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Development Process

To compile and connect to a libpq source program, perform the following operations:
  • Decompress the GaussDB-Kernel-VxxxRxxxCxx-xxxxx-64bit-Libpq.tar.gz file. The required header file is stored in the include folder, and the lib folder contains the required libpq library file.

    In addition to libpq-fe.h, the include folder contains the header files postgres_ext.h, gs_thread.h, and gs_threadlocal.h by default. These three header files are the dependency files of libpq-fe.h.

  • Include the libpq-fe.h header file. 
    #include <libpq-fe.h>
  • Provide the -I directory option to provide the installation location of the header file. (Sometimes the compiler looks for the default directory, so this option can be ignored.) Example: 
    gcc -I (Directory where the header file is located) -L (Directory where the libpq library is located) testprog.c -lpq
  • If the makefile is used, add the following option to variables CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and LIBS: 
    CPPFLAGS += -I (Directory of the header file)
LDFLAGS += -L (Directory of the libpq library)
LIBS += -lpq